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Sales of Wine with Cork Surge for Full Year and Holiday Season NAPA, Calif. – January 25, 2011 –Premium domestic wineries are continuing to increase their useof cork closures, with brands using cork once [...]

On December 10, 2010, APCOR, the Portuguese Cork Association, hosted the inaugural APCOR Japan Natural Cork Awards at the official residence of the Ambassador of Portugal in Tokyo. On behalf of APCOR, His Excellency [...]

Nine awards at the 1st Annual Cork Gala The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) promoted, on October 8th, the First Annual Cork Gala. This unique event in Portugal, which took place in the Palácio do Freixo, [...]

100PercentCork.org Launches Pledge Drive to Reinforce Americans’ Overwhelming Preference for Natural Cork: Time to Make Their Voices Heard Facebook Fans to Top 10,000 This Week 100PercentCork.org launched a [...]

Cork, innovation and Portuguese soul: three factors which served as a base to the Cork Block Shelter project; a project which conquered the world of architecture, the internet and admirers of ecologically friendly [...]

The quality of the cork stopper has been recognised all over the world. The perception of its performance continues on the rise, with numerous comments from worldwide personalities stating their increasing support [...]

The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) was awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Order of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Merit – Class of Industrial Merit, by the President of the Republic, [...]

The Portuguese Cork Association (Apcor) and the Ministry of Economy and Innovation (MEI) sign the contract for the implementation of the Intercork Project – International Campaign for Cork. The programme, budgeted [...]

Kaufland, the German-based retail grocery giant, announced it is sponsoring a unique wine and cork educational program and sweepstakes competition in four of its key hypermarket stores in Ulm, Ravensburg, Neusäß and [...]

The Mediterranean cork forests are one of the 25 global hot spots1. Covering a worldwide area of over 2.2 million hectares, in countries such as Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Italy, Tunisia and France these [...]

22 February 2007 National Forestry Statistics indicate an increase in the cork forest areas The Portuguese Government recently announced that the native Cork Oak is the dominant tree species in Portugal, with a 3.3 [...]

May 2006 London. The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) is advocating to revise the definition of ‘corked’ in the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary so that cork can no longer be cited as the only cause [...]